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Originally Posted by ZeeJustin
This myth seems to be common knowledge among poker players in Canada, but I can't find evidence of it being true anywhere.
My friends that have talked to immigration lawyers have reported back that you're ok as long as you never stay more than 6 months consecutively.
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Originally Posted by teddyFBI
This is accurate.
Not sure what capacity your friends are visiting Canada so I can't comment specifically. If you're legitimately visiting and not intending to circumvent the law then you really will have no problems at all even if you're questioned because you can obviously prove your intent and the purpose of your visit(s) including the length of stay. I've said this already, but this doesn't apply for basically anyone on these forums who are obviously going to Canada to play poker and take up residence.
Obviously it's anecdotal, but I know two people that ran into serious complications that were totally unrelated to poker or any sort of work doing exactly what a lot of people are describing in this thread. Both were blatantly living in Canada, but one returned to the US frequently and the other to HK. Both of them consulted immigration lawyers after they were detained and denied entry. AFAIK one of them is still dealing with it and the other one married their fiance and ended up obtaining everything required of them to become a permanent resident. Neither one of them was working either and ran into trouble with taking up residence.
Anyway like I pointed out before, none of this is an issue until it becomes an issue so to speak. When you start having to explain your finances, your activities, your condo/car/etc. lease and what not it's really hard to say you're just in Canada visiting. I suppose if you have substantial wealth you can both afford the lawyer and the defense that you're legitimately just visiting, but I doubt that applies to most people. If you look at it from the other side and presume you're being questioned about all this already, how do you start explaining all those things and why you didn't just file for any number of travel documents for your stay? At that point you can't really say "I don't know" and hope for the best.
